Today

…is a good day.

I work myself up sometimes, I really do. I know I’m crotchety. I’m impatient with people. My sense of humor is warped, and a lot of people JUST DON’T GET ME. It’s not that I’m misunderstood, it’s that I’m a bitch. OK, so I’m also misunderstood.

So, I get on myself about it. I analyze EVERY DAMN THING I say to people. I’m constantly double guessing, trying to figure out how people are taking me.

This is one of the reasons I spend so much time alone. And it’s why I do better with critters than with people. It’s part of the reason why I start a blog and then NEVER POST ANY DAMN THING in it.

But see, last night, when I came in to work, one of the new deskclerks was working. And she told me she was glad I was coming in, because she had a question about how to do something, and she knew that I would, A) be able to help her figure out how to do it, and B) not make her feel bad for not knowing how to do it.

And since my job is, essentially, figuring out what the desk clerks have screwed up or don’t know how to do, and helping them do those things correctly in the future, that made me feel pretty damn good. All my hard work is paying off. I’m starting to make my place here.

So yeah, it’s a good day.

Reasons why I really like the internet…

Finding one site just leads you to finding another one, and so on…

My newest find is The Gods of Arr-Kelaan. Ordinary folks like us suddenly find themselves on another world, possessed of God-like powers. I’m completely enthralled.

So, in the event this happens to you, what do you think you’d end up being the god of? I don’t think I’d actually go for chaos. Yeah, I wander around the internet calling myself eris, but that’s more of a nod to the entity I KNOW is planning my life than anything else. If anything, I’d go for being the goddess of Balance. That’d be cool. But I’d probably end up being the goddess of Crotchetiness.  Anyone want dibs on the cool spheres of influence?

What I disliked about Twilight, et al. (Stephanie Meyer)

What I disliked about Twilight.

 

I’ll be honest here, Twilight had to be a much better book than it was to get me to like it. I don’t like vampire fiction, and I utterly LOATHE the trite and horribly over-used reformed bad-boy “oh, but he’s the GOOD vampire!” nonsense. Also, I’m 34. I truly doubt I’m in any way the intended audience. But I tried to give it a fair shot. I made it most of the way through the first book in the series. I finally bailed, and wiki-ed the plot lines for the rest. Nope, not a series for me.

 

I don’t want to jump on the bandwagon of brutally hating Stephanie Meyer for this series. But I do feel like articulating some of the points raised in the series that I disliked.